Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

Scripture tells us in Proverbs that as a man thinks in his heart, so he is. As you think in your heart,

so you are the Proverbs tells us. See, that tells me that my life is going to go in the direction of my most

prominent thoughts. Those thoughts that allow to linger in my mind and then drop down and take root in my

heart. You see, if we're going to be everything that God intended us to be, we've got to take captive

the things that are going on in our mind, the thoughts that are ruling our life. You see, we have to

take captive of these thoughts because we don't want these thoughts pushing us around. We want to push

our thoughts around. We want our life to go in the direction of our thoughts. So what does that mean?

That means we have to be on guard about what we're thinking about. Listen, do you want your life to go

in a certain direction? Start thinking that direction. Start pushing your life that way,

by the thoughts you're thinking. If you need victory today, you need to start thinking overcoming

thoughts. If there's some areas in your life where you feel defeated, you feel down. Start thinking

overcoming thoughts. Start saying, if God be for me, who dare be against me, He overcame so that I

can overcome. In fact, He's called me more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. You see, we've got to

learn to recognize those thoughts that are trying to defeat us. God wants us to know that there are

strategies and schemes that want to come against us so that we can't fulfill our destiny.

Maybe you have low self-esteem. Somebody's a planet, a seed, a thought in your life, and it's

built itself up and it's grown. You can change that. You can change your life by changing your

thoughts, but it's up to you and I. See, no one can change our thoughts for us. They can tell us

all day that we can do it. They can tell us that, you know, we have the talent that God is for us,

but until we take responsibility for what's going on in our thought life, we'll never get to the

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